Robert McGill (born 1976) is a Canadian writer and literary critic. He was born and raised in Wiarton, Ontario.[1] His parents were physical education teachers.[2] He graduated from Queen's University in Kingston, Ontario in 1999. He attended the University of Oxford as a Rhodes Scholar, then completed the MA program in Creative Writing at the University of East Anglia.[3] After graduating with a PhD in English from the University of Toronto, Robert moved to Cambridge, Massachusetts and took up a Junior Fellowship with the Harvard University Society of Fellows.[4] He now teaches Creative Writing and Canadian Literature at the University of Toronto.[5]